Talk:Dragon School
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Do you think 'the definite article' should be used for this er... article? -- Mintguy
- Hmm, I'm not sure, but as far as I'm aware most instituions with names that start with "The" don't have the "The" in the article name. For example, the University of Cambridge is under University of Cambridge, rather than The University of Cambridge. (Is that analogous?) In this case, the "The" seems to be attached to the name, but not as a fully fledged part of the name, because the website calls it "the Dragon School" rather than "The Dragon School" - except at the beginning of a sentence, of course. But then again, would "the" as part of a name be capitalised anyway? Oh, you've confused me now. What was the question again...? -- Oliver P. 01:42 Feb 23, 2003 (UTC)
Well, if you were addressing a letter to the school, you would put
Fred BloggsQuentin Farquharson The Dragon School etc...
Whereas I'm not sure you'd do this with University of Cambridge. Mintguy
- Ah, good point. I'll just say I'm still not sure... Can you think of any examples of similarly named institutions that already have articles, that we can look to for precedents? Does anyone else want to express a third opinion...? -- Oliver P. 02:05 Feb 23, 2003 (UTC)
- I could point out that the school's website is at dragonschool.org rather than thedragonschool.org... And that the copyright notice on the main page is "© Dragon School Trust Ltd 2003", even though it's really The Dragon School Trust Ltd... I'm not sure how relevant these facts are, though... -- Oliver P.
My opinion: a school for dragons! Cool! (oh, and I'll make a redirect from The Dragon School to here to cover all bases - I don't know where the article should be, but here seems OK to me. Does it matter?) --Camembert
- Well I'm not stating a definite opinion on this myself. I don't know either. But for similar institututions how about The Football Association, The Labour Party (UK)... hm.. which I've just noticed someone has moved.. it needs to go back I think 'cos it is registered with the Electorial Commission as 'The Labour Party' and we had a big discussion about the name. Mintguy